Another brilliant day - weather fantastic today - who knows what tomorrow will bring. Paul keeps sayin that the good weather follows us around!!! Got up pretty early in Chester and took the bus into the town centre (Pauls leg is not too good!!) and then got on the hop-on-hop-off bus around the city. Really good for us and a lovely day sitting up o n top in the sun. Got off at the River Dee and took an half hour river trip up and down. Good to see all the fla...

Well, here we are again. I bet you thought we had disappeared off the face of the earth. Well, I suppose we had really - we were in Wales!!! Joking aside, we have just had 3 fabulous days in the Brecon Beacons staying with cousin Hugh and Carrie. They dont have wifi or indeed a computer other than a steam driven one, so really have been a little incomunicado. Here we go, if I can remember. We travelled from the Cotswolds to Crickhowel via a 'scenic' route s...

After the usual 'full English' we set off to the town of Cheltenham to find a Vodofone shop and get my phone set up for UK use. No trouble to find a Car park, but put in enough money for 2 hrs (2.50 pounds) and only got 1 hr bit of a swiz. However, we had plenty of time and then sat and had a coffee. Boy it is hard to get the sort of coffe one wants - usually a long black in NZ here it could be anything, but have settled for a double espresso in a bigger cup ...

Well, having just done this and lost the lot I am going to keep this brief. Picked up the car from Heathrow and had no difficulty getting onto the M4 heading off towards the Cotswolds. We decided to take a varied route - part motorway and part country roads. Skirted around Swindon and explored part of the Cotswolds Water park, a series of lakes used for camping, adventure parks, sailing etc. surrounded by cycle and walking trails. A fabulous day brough out th...

Well, of course we are still in NZ as most of you will know, we dont leave till Friday week. But I just had to add a blog for those poor souls who have nothing better to do than to check us out, and express our sympathy and thoughts for the poor old Cantabrians. What a b*****!!! Just as they had all cleaned up after the last lot, repairs were well under way and people were beginning to get back to some sort of normality, and wham, nature plays cruel tricks aga...